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Surrey taxpayers paid $316K to former mayor’s lawyers: documents

10/12/2025despair

The law firm that represented former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum in his public mischief trial last year was paid more than $300,000 by the city, according to municipal financial records.

The city’s statement of financial information for 2022, which was posted online last week, includes a payment of 316,663.50 to Peck and Company Barristers.

Richard Peck, the named partner of that firm who also defended Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, was one of a team of lawyers that secured an acquittal for McCallum, who was accused of lying to authorities when he made a report saying his foot was run over during

Senators Release Report from Government Watchdog on the Prevalence and Economic Effects of Noncompete Agreements Amid Intensifying Federal and State Efforts to Restrict Use

09/10/2025despair

On May 17, 2023, US Senator Rob Wyden (D-OR) announced the release of a long-awaited report on the US Government Accountability Office’s multi-year investigation into the use of noncompete agreements across the US labor market. In announcing the release, Senator Wyden said that the GAO report “highlights the problems of noncompete agreements – particularly their impact on limiting workers’ fundamental freedom to change jobs,” and pledged to “fight tooth and nail for fair labor laws that protect workers and promote the creation of new businesses in Oregon and nationwide.”

In March 2019, Wyden and a bipartisan group of US senators …

Dechert law firm asks judge to toss reporter’s hack-and-leak lawsuit

08/01/2025despair

(Reuters) – Law firm Dechert asked a US judge to throw out a former Wall Street Journal reporter’s lawsuit accusing the firm of working with mercenary hackers to leak private emails and get him fired from his job.

Dechert argued in a Washington, DC, federal court filing late Friday that the lawsuit was untimely because it relates to events that occurred more than five years ago. The complaint by reporter Jay Solomon also does not show that Dechert was responsible for the harm he faced, the firm said.

Solomon, who recently became an editor at the news startup Semafor, sued

Demanding Justice, Law Firm Yayan Riyanto and Partners, Sues the Reporting Party to the Kepanjen District Court over allegations that their Client’s Land Sale and Purchase Letters are False

15/08/2024despair

Dr. Yayan Riyanto, SH, MH & Partner holding a press conference at his office Jl Kawi No 29 Malang City, East Java

MALANGKOTA (Surabaya Post.id) – Law Firm Dr Yayan Riyanto and Partners sued the reporter, namely Sutris Cs, to the Kepanjen District Court (PN) Malang Regency. The lawsuit was filed by Ngatipah CS through his attorney, namely Dr. Yayan Riyanto, SH, MH, over the accusations of the defendant who said that the sale and purchase of land covering an area of 4,800m2 was said to be fake.

As revealed by Yayan Riyanto, this case began when the defendant Sutris